. >> it could be but, you know right now focus, on capitol hill is on medicare, and where the spinning cuts are come in. ive is conceding that in some fashion taxes are going up for a big chunk of the group that you talk about. neil: a lot of your colleagues, tom, have said, whatever will affect your business and dividend, and bank stocks and other issues, a deal, is better than no deal, even if eschewed a little bit toward taxes than spending cut its beats reaching the end of the year without a deal, do a agree? >> it is better than going off the financial cliff. but you know, certainty on a dad biel is not good for -- on a bad deal is not good for the american economy. we had a good first quarter, reasonably good second quarter, third quarter, driven with this uncertainty with respect to the election and financial cliff, and the economy ground to a halt, we have a backlog of economic development project in the southeast, 300 projects representing $15 billion of investment, 45,000 jobs, good paying jobs. those -- >> does that evaporate if dividend taxes go up? >> if we go off the fina